From: Kevin Smith <sent@...>
Date: 2001-01-02T16:33:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8504] Re: Hash access method

Dave Thomas wrote:
>tonys@myspleenklug.on.ca (tony summerfelt) writes:
>
>> > But do you ever do things like iterate over them, or access them by name?
>> 
>> i will have to iterate over them. each planet has a ship production value. so
>> the number of ships is going increase every year. for every planet i'll
>> need:
>> 
>> a.ships =a.ships + a.production
>> 
>> and i need that 26 times. you can see why i'm looking for a solution.
>
>Here I think I'd be looking at an array or some other collection:
>
>  planets.each do |planet|
>    planet.ships += planet.production
>  end
>
>or something similar.

I happen to be writing a similar game right now :-
)

And yes, I have an Array of Ship objects, and an 
Array of Planet objects. Works great. Highly 
recommended.

Kevin